‘Reflections on Ghetto Anthropology’

Mitzvah Girls: Bringing up the next generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn by Ayala Fader

Ayala Fader’s Mitzvah Girls is an unusual book. It could be classified as anthropology of religion or childhood, as linguistic or urban anthropology or as diaspora, gender or Jewish studies. Its originality lies less in the contribution it makes to any one of these domains than in its location at their intersection.